Lauren

“...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“People don’t really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little predetermined slots.

They decide what you are in the first two seconds, and they only get nervous or upset if you don’t live up to their snap judgments.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“Go down." It seemed obvious. "You have to go down before you can come out - that's how these things always work.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“The only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. "Fear," he used to say, "fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe." That blew me away. "Turn on the TV," he'd say. "What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products." Fuckin' A, was he right. Fear of aging, fear of loneliness, fear of poverty, fear of failure. Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War